- #1 Myriads: Renaissance
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: 4X 19.1% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Turn-Based 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #2 Underfoot Queens
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ElVillano
Windows · Linux
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Hex Grid 8.2% ★
- #3 AstroScaper
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fun Fortress
Windows
A relaxing puzzle city builder where you expand colonies on all sides of asteroids. Balance three core stats while placing buildings with proximity synergies. Plan efficient layouts, build train networks, and watch your settlements bloom in space.
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Relaxing 7.9%
- #4 Harmonis: the hand-made kingdoms
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Catvin Catowsky
Windows
A cozy puzzle-builder where every tile breathes life. Craft serene kingdoms, watch settlers laugh and animals mischief. Rebuild endlessly with new strategies, secrets, and a dash of wholesome chaos. No battles — just creativity and charm.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Relaxing 7.6%
- #5 Planet Pioneers
94% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Desert Dev
Windows
Planet Pioneers is a relaxing building and puzzle game where you prepare new planets for settlers. Build tiles strategically, fulfill quests for your settlers, keep pollution low and enable new buildings along the way. Shape the planet as you wish until it’s time to move on to your next challenge.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Relaxing 8%
- #6 Lands of Koastalia
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
- #7 MicroTown
93% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 7.9%
- #8 Into The Depths
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SmelJey
Windows
A roguelite city builder, where you colonize the mysterious underworld. Build your settlement, explore the caves and colonize the deepest caverns. Overcome the dangers hidden in the dark and make the riches of the Depths yours!
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Turn-Based 14.7%, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 7.1%
- #9 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
91% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Strategy 7.4%, Procedural Generation 7.1%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #10 ISLANDERS: New Shores
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,154 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Relaxing 9.3%
- #11 As Far As The Eye
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,112 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Hex Grid 11.2% ★, 4X 11.1% ★
- #12 EVERDAWN
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SOLIDS Studio
Windows
EVERDAWN is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Relaxing 10.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #13 Farlanders
89% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Turn-Based 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #14 WildRoot
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #15 Settlements Rising
87% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 7.6%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #16 Slipways
86% matchVery Positive93% of 2,269 reviews2021
Dev: Beetlewing
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.
Why similar: 4X 15.1% ★, Turn-Based 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Resource Management 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #17 Reus 2
85% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Turn-Based 10.9%, Resource Management 10%, Management 8.2%
- #18 Critias Empire
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 10%
- #19 Pixel Colony
84% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 25% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10.3%, Relaxing 9.5%
- #20 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
84% matchPositive86% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Hex Grid 11.7% ★, Turn-Based 9.6%
- #21 Settletopia
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #22 Orrstead
82% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8%
- #23 Idle Terra
81% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #24 Dreadhaven: Prototype
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Woum
Windows
A minimalist turn-based city-building where you must expand your colony in a hostile environment while surviving relentless waves of zombies. Each day, you have a limited number of actions to build, manage, fortify, and strategize to ensure your survival.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Turn-Based 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%
- #25 Bronze Age - HD Edition
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 367 reviews2017
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
Why similar: 4X 15.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Turn-Based 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%
- #26 Cities Domination
80% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: D Green Games
Windows
Cities Domination is a city builder, resource management and strategy game. Gestion all the units and resources between cities for create an empire, attack enemies cities, build, defend and expand your cities and dominate the castles... or lose yours.
Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Hex Grid 12.2% ★, Resource Management 12%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #27 Wild Haven
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IOGenisys LLC
Windows · Mac
A short, relaxing nature builder about restoring a broken world. Start with a small shrine, clean up the pollution, and expand your powers as you build. Strategically place wildlife and plants to restore the ecosystem and watch your forest grow!
Why similar: 4X 23% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Turn-Based 11.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Relaxing 8%
- #28 Windowed Realms
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #29 Marble Age: Remastered
79% matchVery Positive86% of 388 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Turn-Based 14.6%, 4X 13.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.3% ★
- #30 Island Master
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8.1%
- #31 Pawnholm
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #32 Treetopians
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Relaxing 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #33 Lands of Rumour
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Turn-Based 9.8%, Hex Grid 9% ★
- #34 Blueprint Tycoon
77% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 5.8%
- #35 Founders' Fortune
76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 6.5%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #36 Humanica
73% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.6%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #37 Blocktopia
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Relaxing 9.1%, Base Building 9%
- #38 Flora Domina
75% matchMixed58% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Dave Van VerdegemPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
In this unique take on turn-based 4X strategy, play as a nature goddess that defends her island by playing cards to use nature as your ally.
Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based 13.1%, Hex Grid 11.6% ★
- #39 Can't Live Without Electricity
74% matchVery Positive94% of 241 reviews2023
Dev: MELOVITY
Windows · Mac
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Management 10.9%, Hex Grid 9.8% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Relaxing 8.3%
- #40 Pirate Plight
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, 4X 17.8% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #41 Havenreach: Last Refuge
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Leonix Games Studio
Windows
Fight for your people’s survival in this turn-based strategy game as you compete against other refugees for land. Expand tile by tile, defend your borders, and sustain your people through gathering or force. A streamlined 4X experience designed to finish in one sitting.
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Hex Grid 11.4% ★, Resource Management 8.3%
- #42 Oxygen: First Breath
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 7.9%
- #43 Kingdoms and Castles
71% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 6.7%, Base Building 5.8%
- #44 Crowded Blue Dot
72% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #45 Lil Guys
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 9.8%
- #46 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 13%, Hex Grid 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%
- #47 Our Freedom: Prologue
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #48 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Romulus
Windows
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, 4X 18.2% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Management 8.5%
- #49 Dorfromantik
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Resource Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Relaxing 8.4%
- #50 Sect Leader's Decree
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, City Builder 10.9%, Management 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
- #51 Zen World
70% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: Cartboard Games
Windows
Zen World is a strategy game that can be as relaxing as you want it to be. Build a calm and colorful landscape with hexagonal tiles, matching their borders to each other, collect valuable boxes, and explore the tech tree.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Hex Grid 12.6% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #52 Sky Tale
69% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: FrostPeek Studio
Windows · Mac
Sky Tale is a cute city building game about creating lovely islands using various tiles and buildings.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Relaxing 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Strategy 7.6%
- #53 Powerplay
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 10.4%
- #54 Tenants of the Shade
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, 4X 12.4% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★
- #55 Terra-7
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Strategy 12.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #56 DeckTerra
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
4X Deckbuilder where you harness magical spells to expand your empire. Make strategic decisions about what to construct in your cities to fend off enemies and conquer the map across infinite procedural landscapes. Play cards to take your empire from the stone age to the modern era and beyond!
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, 4X 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13% ★, Hex Grid 12.1% ★, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #57 The City Must Grow
67% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Tunaic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Minimalist 10.3%, Puzzle 8.3%, Relaxing 8.3%
- #58 Wild West Pioneers
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 20.4%, 4X 19.7% ★, Sandbox 7.5%, Base Building 6.9%
- #59 VENOY
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 8.1%